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ProfessorGAC

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2. Swatting At Flies

Reply to beachbum bob (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 28, 2018, 02:27 PM

Mar 2018

I forget who said it, but somebody said of him "Hitting Wilbur's knuckleball is like trying to hit a hummingbird with a pipe cleaner." One of the Chicago radio guys doing the game. I forget who but remember that line like it happened yesterday.

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Wilbur Wood [View all] kairos12 Mar 2018 OP

Wood is among a handful of pitchers who were reknown knucklerballers, and I had the beachbum bob Mar 2018 #1

Swatting At Flies ProfessorGAC Mar 2018 #2